Ukiah Daily Journal (Newspaper) - February 23, 1979, Ukiah, California Sheriffs Office asks community to help stop local crime The Mendocino County Sheriff's is looking for It wants citizens to be involved in stopping local Sheriff torn asked the Board of Supervisors this week to appoint a advisory board to help pinpoint crime problems in each part of the Each supervisor will select two residents of his district to serve on the sheriff's The said is to improve relations between the sheriff's office and the and help law enforcement officials determine crime priorities in different another step in helping to get the public more the sheriff He said he hoped the program would help stem the tide of burglaries in the trying to get people aware that thefts arc Jondahl best them is to gel people aware of them and aware of what to do to stop And he said the panel would give the sheriff's department a liaison to the various communities in the part of the county has a different he The sheriff said members of the Iward would keep regular contact with the sheriff's and the entire group would probably meet once or twice a But he said the panel would be operated an informal and would not Mold regular Supervisors voted in favor of the and arc expected to appoint constituents to the group in the next couple According to the panel is only one aspect of an ongoing community involvement program run by the sheriff's Among other the sheriff's office holds conducts security surveys has begun a neighborhood watch program in the development near Gasses include self defense for women and a course on business According to sheriff's officer Charles the women's self defense course has been one of the department's most popular response is really oven more than we can attempt to he said the sheriff's department has been involved in conducting surveys of homes and businesses to instruct owners on security He said the commercial surveys are particularly covers everything from receiving and records to what kinds of locks you have on the Lambert Ukiah Journal Year No. 263 Mendocino California February 23, 1979 24 Cents Brown unveils new plan to finance government SACRAMENTO - The Brown administration has unveiled a long-range plan to help local governments and schools cope with the impact of Proposition 13. State Finance Director Richard Silberman told reporters Thursday the plan that permanently restructures financing of local governments and schools is designed to end the state's bailout approach for aiding local agencies in the wake of Proposition 13. State bailout funds this fiscal year totaled Silberman said the plan would transfer two cents of the state sales tax to cities and shift county property taxes to the support of and provides a state takeover of county costs of most health and welfare from the desk By Jim Garner The Friday It happened in Happy Larry school this week asked the school board to consider eliminating his He earns Acheatel told the can't in good conscience tell the board to get rid of a classroom teacher and keep my as a full-time Acheatel should be hired by the State of California to lecture governmental bodies on the true meaning of 13. Don't ask too many of the 40 who this week returned from Jamaica was the It seems Revenge isn't confined to All but a couple spent most of the time far from the golf courses and a 10-inch rainfall didn't help Note to Vicki editor of The photo of the Book Revue sign on School Street was intended to depict a sign conforms to the sign Lee sign And neither did Enemark author the sign Latest report on the opening of the new restaurant on S. State of is that March 15 will be the Extensive is nearly A Santa RoSs firm is the new Tempest in Teapot in courthouse about a supervisor who rang up in long distance phone calls in first month in That should narrow the field for Weather Northwestern Showers likely from about Point Arena northward today and partly cloudy to the south with a few showers this Snow showers down to 1500 to 3000 feet in northern Partly cloudy tonight with chance of showers Rain likely point Arena northward and chance of rain to the south beginning Saturday Continued Fort Bragg 42 and 52 Ukiah 40 and 54. Forecasts for Sunday through Rain likely Sunday and Decreasing chance showers Monday night and Snow in above 3000 to 5000 Temperatures averaging a below normal with highs at low altitude mostly in the 50s and lows in the upper 30s and 40s. 1979 Date Hi Lo 22 51 38 11 a.m. Today 49 Rainfall 22.80 24-hour rainfall 1978 Date Hi Lo 22 72 42 Low Today 38 Last Year 43.05 The proposal would take effect during the 1980-81 fiscal year - if enacted by the It would cost the state more than billion in direct expenditures and lost object is to put together a comprehensive said pointing out the administration has been working on the proposal since passage of Proposition 13. He emphasized the plan does not provide any new And he stressed the plan would require no general tax increases in the foreseeable Under the two-cent sales tax shift amounting to he counties would receive 1% cents and cities Cities would retain their share of the property the state keeps 4% cents of every 6 cents of sales tax revenue with the remainder going to local Silberman said he envisions authorizing county supervisors to spend as much as cents of their share and allowing the voters to decide spending the Spending of the share would be left up to the Silberman said the proposal is aimed at satisfying demands for more local control of tax The shift of property taxes to schools would give schools stable source of with an 8-10 percent annual rate Silberman He said it also would continue efforts to comply with the state Supreme Court's Serrano decision for equalize school financing among The property tax revenue going to the schools is estimated at million for K-12 districts and million for community Under the the state would assume 100 0 percent of county costs for the blind and disabled welfare programs and - more than But counties would be required to pay 15 percent of the costs of welfare in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children plus 50 percent of the nonfederal share of of food stamps and child support Silberman said the plan makes no special provisions for special which have complained loudly about not getting enough Proposition 13 bailout The plan also says that special districts may receive a portion of Silberman said the administration hopes to find an author of the legislation by next RUSSIAN - The Coyote Dam downstream water leyel was up this morning as a result of U.S. Army Corps officials attempts to lower the five-foot above normal Mendocino Lake as shown here by the Russian River under talmage Road Bridge southwest of Coyote photo by Dale Have Chinese lost control of Vietnam United Press International Thousands of Chinese invaders and Vietnamese regular clashed today in the heaviest fighting of the weeklong Vietnam said it had repelled two Chinese killing 500 China claimed Vietnam has refused to talk but Hanoi's ambassador to Tokyo said his government would begin talks with Peking immediately after China's troops withdraw from The German news agency DPA cited reports in Peking that the Soviet Union is aiding its Vietnamese allies with an airlift of weapons and ammunition and reported a number of military experts foresee intensification of the Since the Vietnamese threw their well-trained regular troops into DPA correspondent Eckhard Budewig reported from the Chinese appear to have lost control of their timetable for the raid against experts in Peking no longer believe that China still is in a position to determine vvhen will Budewig diplomats even are inclined to believe that the deadline for the end of the Chinese attack actually was the day the dean of the diplomatic corps in Peking relayed a report later denied by the Foreign Ministry that Chinese troops already were withdrawing to the Budewig said In another report from the Yugoslav news agency reported Vice Premier Teng said again today that be clear to everybody that the volume of Chinese military action is in who met with Common Market President Roy said China not wish to conquer a single inch of Vietnamese Radio monitored in said hundreds of Chinese air force planes arrived near the border today while a bridge to aid Chinese reinforcements equipped with heavy firearms was built near Lao Cai oyer the Red which flows from China past There were also reports that Vietnam had shelled China's province just northeast of Vietnam with 130mm artillery fire and that the Chinese were organizing militia groups in In Chinese Ambasador Chai saw Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal off on a trip to China and when asked about the war told I know is what I read In the Vietnam's Defense Minister Vo Nguyen in a radio report monitored in said Vietnam will win even if the Chinese widen the He thanked the Soviet Union for its support and Japan's Kyodo news service said the official Chinese newspaper People's Daily charged Hanoi has refused to talk peace with The paper quoted the Voice of Vietnam as the source for Hanoi's refusal to In Japanese government sources reported Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Giap challenged Peking to prove its claim of territorial by an troop we would not refuse to Giap said in a meeting with Japan's Foreign Minister Sunao The People's Daily also carried an official New China News Agency dispatch from inside Vietnam claiming Vietnamese residents along the border supported the Chinese dispatch was the first official Peking report admitting Chinese invaded It claimed the Chinese action was supported by public opinion in Thailand and storm could flood roads Although Thursday's half-inch of rain didn't sink Mendocino a storm predicted for Saturday - if it's a - could cause of road said Bob highway superintendent this Tlie California Department of Transportation official said a severe storm could flood parts of Highway 128 between Navarro and the Highway 1 between Manchester and Point Arena and Highway 20 just west of Upper Lake in Lake Highway 101 through the said needs more than just one bad storm to Coyote Dam officials said the Lake Mendocino water level registered 742.75 above sea level Normal which was recorded at last is 737.5, something officials are trying to regain by releasing 2,000 cubic feet per second of water into the Russian The lake flow over the top of the dam if its water level topped 765.7 an event that occurred in 1964, dam officials Thursday's rain caused a few more potholes but no serious problems on county said Edna a county public works department who is just Co. worker resigns after being linked to embezzlement probe By NANCY STENSON Journal Staff Writer A 32-year-old female county employee resigned from her job in the county counsel's office at noon Thursday after being linked with an investigation into possible embezzlement of county administered informed county sources Sharon formerly an the county district attorney's office under former DA Duncan James and an experienced probate refused comment when contacted by phone James and County Counsel John most recent confirmed that name is associated with the She had been a county employee more than five courthouse sources Informed sources disclosed that the possible theft was discovered after a probated estate was The name of the deceased was not State investigators reportedly are trying to determine how a public administrator's trust account check found its way into personal After the estate was a check was sent to an undisclosed person and ended up in one source The who serves as public does not usually handle estates valued over said who was still in office when the theft The former district attorney expressed surprise over tlie possible James described the system as almost Jim a deputy county and the county's grand jury auditor audits all probates handled by the public administrator at least once a the former DA Deputy DA Andy who handles discovered that something was wrong when he reopened tlie said He immediately notified the state attorney general's office since the office would be unable to conduct the who audits the public administrator's trust said the only possibilities he could see for such a theft were if an item was never recorded by or if items belonging to a rest home resident were submitted directly to the probate item that goes into the public administrator's receives a Those receipts would have to balance with the court he Nines said every six the county auditor checks what items the public administrator has and if they have been Reese said it would be possible to forge a name on a check drawn from the public administrator's trust Attorney General's office deputies Thomas Brady and Eric Collins refused comment on the Joseph Slavish an investigator for the state justice department has been sent to the Mendocino County office to conduct the investigation Slavish also refused
